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8 Video Conferencing Tips 13 Sep 2012 | 07:50 am
For the past several months I’ve been working on a project that involves being on a video conference call pretty much 8 hours per day with people all across the US. This has been an interesting experi...
Creative Business – Tie Society 7 Aug 2012 | 06:33 am
Some time back I wrote an article called You Are Self-Employed. The premise was that being an employee doesn’t really offer any job security and if it doesn’t offer job security, you may want to consi...
Paradox of Powerful Tools 27 Jul 2012 | 10:10 am
I once worked with an organization that was using two different word processors. They had an old mainframe system with an integrated office suite that been in use for years. The mainframe was accessib...
How to Make an Insanely Simple Paperless Filing System 24 Jul 2012 | 11:25 am
This is a guest post by Arjun Muralidharan, author of The Productive Student, a new blog about productivity for college students and all productivity buffs. Mark’s paperless project has always been a...
Email is Permanent 11 Jul 2012 | 01:16 am
Matthew Tanin, a fund manager at Bear Stearns, has learned an important lesson about email: It is, for all practical purposes, permanent. It is easy to think of email as a conversation. You say somet...
How to Memorize Verbatim Text 27 Jun 2012 | 08:17 am
If you are visiting from StumbleUpon and like this article and tool, please consider giving it a thumbs up. Thanks! Memorizing does not have to be as hard as most people make it. The problem is that ...
Living Within Your Means 21 Jun 2012 | 11:00 pm
When we purchased our first house we put down a large down payment. Our realtor was surprised to find out we didn’t have any other debt. Getting the loan was no problem as we bought quite a bit less h...
Reader Question – How to Wake Up 21 Jun 2012 | 01:00 am
What is the best way to wake up if you haven’t slept? If you feel drained because you haven’t had enough rest, the best thing you can do is go ahead and get some sleep. This is a little like asking “...
You Are Self Employed 19 Jun 2012 | 09:11 pm
I was recently talking with a friend who said he’d be scared to try to start his own business because it seemed so insecure. I asked, “How is that any different than what you do working for someone el...
Intelligence Follows the Wheel 13 Jun 2012 | 09:47 am
I ran across some interesting research the other day that I wanted to take a few moments to share here. For years scientists have known that giving mice “enriched” environments makes the mice smarter....
